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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD outside of US??
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 12:49:24 GMT
Message-ID: <CC40yC.JGq@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
References: <LMJM.93Aug19143408@kea.doc.ic.ac.uk> <1993Aug19.135856.24990@gmd.de>
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In article <1993Aug19.135856.24990@gmd.de> veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit) writes:
> Since FreeBSD claims to tolerate GNU code, the moment should have been come to
> throw out that stupid "restricted" BNR/2 crypt and place the GNU-crypt
> lookalike in, otherwise we are going to have US and "rest-of-the-world"
> releases forever.

It uses a non-DES algorithm?

Hmmm. Got mixed feelings about that. I like being able to use the same
password files on my Xenix boxes, System V boxes, and so on. Changing
crypt would break that even with munging... and going to YP isn't an
option (Xenix don't play that).
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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